North Star Press Of St Cloud: 166 books
by Michael P. Maurer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
When a teenage boy sets out to prove his bravery, he becomes trapped in an ordeal of survival and ignites a struggle with darkness from which he might never escape. In Perfume River Nights, eighteen-year-old Jimmy Miller, called Singer by his platoon mates, wants to confirm his courage in the trials...
by Karlajean Jirik Becvar
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Having traveled back in time and having survived the Great Hinckley Fire, Addie Ever’s desire for adventure should be more than satisfied. However, after reading an historical account at the library that reveals the true fate of Thomas and Judith Markham after the fire, Addie finds herself drawn...
Malice Toward None
Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Homestead Act, and the Massacre—and the Heartening Survival—of the Kochendorfers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A gravestone inscription leads the author on a search through early Minnesota history, and then U.S. and Civil War history. He discovers that four siblings orphaned by the Dakota War commissioned that inscription in memory of their parents and younger sister, and that their many descendants now live...
by Rhonda Fochs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The long-awaited second book in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-seven of Minnesota’s central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how...
by Don Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Flying Uncle's Junk is the much-anticipated follow-up memoir to A Shadow at the Gate. Author Don Bloch spent more than twenty years with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. He made undercover buys of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs on the streets of Minneapolis. As a DEA pilot, he flew undercover...
by Rhonda Fochs
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin’s places of the past.
Tomatoes Free for the Asking
A Minnesota Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
"Tomatoes free for the asking" is a quaint term remembered from the 1800s, yet heard in the 1950s of Stever's youth. It was a simple expression written on a piece of cardboard set alongside a pile of tomatoes near someone's garden or on the front porch. It was an invitation to take as you...
Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids
A Family Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mark and Katya bought a thirty-four-foot steel sailboat. With their two daughters, they sailed around Lake Superior, then moved aboard for a year and sailed to the Bahamas. The sailing life proved both challenging and rewarding to the extreme, and big decisions made along the way stretched them to...
by Mary Joy Breton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Plunged into poverty by the Great Depression, Mary Joy tells how—after losing their home in Minneapolis—she and her family lived off an acre of land in then-rural Eden Prairie township. Volunteer work during a political campaign in 1968 led to a job offer that launched her back into the work world....
Various Heroes
A Novel—Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Upper Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he’s noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he’s not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for—as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula...
A Penny A Kiss
Memoir of a Minnesota Girl in the Forties and Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A young southern family moves from the hills of small-town West Virginia to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939 and enters a new social stratum. After struggling to fit into a private girl’s high school, the daughter attends a western college, where she suffers staggering defeat and enters a relationship...
by Carolyn K. Boehlke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Nadia Alvarez, a fifteen-year-old Mexican immigrant, travels from a remote and poverty-stricken village in southern Mexico with her family to the United States. They sneak illegally into the country through a drain pipe that connects Sonora, Mexico, to Arizona. As the family enters the country, the...
Finding Foxholes
A World War II Infantry Route, Then . . . and 48 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Finding Foxholes is a refreshing look at WWII memories. It includes first-hand accounts from an American soldier who stormed Omaha Beach and traveled across Europe, and the tales of revisiting those European sights with his daughter and son-in-law decades later. This unique story explores side-by-side...
by Franco Pagnucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Tracks on Damp Sand is a book about light, about seeing, and about the power of words to capture and save what we see and save ourselves. The 62 lyric poems also include the story of a pair of bald eagles building their first nest and hatching their first young.